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Dennis Jones is a Jamaican-born international economist, who has lived most of the time in the UK and USA, and latterly in Guinea, west Africa. He moved back to the Caribbean in 2007. This blog contains his observations on life on this small eastern Caribbean island, as well as views on life and issues on a broader landscape, especially the Caribbean and Africa.

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Saturday, March 28, 2009

EARTH HOUR 2009

EARTH HOUR began at 8.30pm. I turned off most of the lights in the house I rent. I continued to have a little light--the glow from the screen of my laptop as I worked from battery power. My phone was being recharged through the USB connection, not the wall socket. I watched live NCAA basketball on my laptop--Pitt-Villanova. It's not easy working in the dark.

Ironic that Barbados had a power outage last night that began at 8.45pm and went on for about 2 hours. Early or solidarity?

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